#imperial units

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

I understand the USamerican's commitment to imperial units, but could y'all have consistent paper aspect ratios? You can do an A3, A4, A5 type system using imperial units. Is that too much to ask for??

[victusinveritas]

[blatentmisinformation]

King Hasselfist the First of England used the size of his own feet as the basis at which the size of a foot is defined in hopes it would normalise the idea of his unusually large feet in the minds of the English public.

[n2qfd]

Anything but metric...

[kply-industries]

[anarchist-rat-swarm]

Ignore all the circles that are fractions of something. They're dumb and there's no reason for them to be on the chart. When you're converting from kilometers to meters, you don't go through three eighths of a kilometer first.

So now you have 5 units of measurement. You'll notice that, with the exception of teaspoons, everything is in powers of 2. The reason it's handy is because you can eyeball a half, which means you can eyeball everything else as well. You can fold a paper into quarters or cut a pie into eight, but you aren't splitting a pizza evenly between 10 people without breaking out a protractor.

(Teaspoons are the odd one out because England. Some snob decided that there was a Correct Way To Make Tea, and his special spoon became a standardized unit. It's like if the 70's had given birth to the unit of length "one line of cocaine")

[la7ma-mafrooma]

Keep talking about Palestine!

[elektroskopik]

I,for the life of me, cannot tell you how much I weight in kg or how tall I am in meters, but I grew up in Ontario with the metric system and use it every day at work.

[sayruq]

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[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

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[historyforfuture]

No difference except , the zionists made it worse , they stripped them from their clothes

[taviamoth]

the americans & the british have been bombing civilians in yemen & lebanon for months (with a history before that)

these people did absolutely nothing. they were murdered because their countries are actively supporting palestine.

this is a war crime. there is no excuse to do this, but they are doing it because they need the system of western impunity to survive. they need international institutions toothless because if israeli leaders stand trial, THEY ARE NEXT

[transandscreamingallthetime]

Inches, Feet, Yards are fine

I don't even mind 3/8ths of an inch and stuff like that. It's cute, it can be useful. They're all fine as long as you stick to ONE of those units. What is cursed is stuff like: 6ft 2 or 1 lb 6 oz because then you have to remember the conversions between feet and inches. Does that 6 oz mean it's a little bit more than 1 lb or is it nearly 2 lbs worth??? It somehow manages to be imprecise and also difficult to get a rough idea of the scale of things. I hate it. But there are even worse measurements. Like the horrors of gauge. Used for size of cylinders or wire, and it makes no sense. Firstly, it goes the wrong way. So a 12 gauge is bigger than a 20 gauge. If you want to know what gauge a certain diameter is, you need to use this godawful formula:

I just, don't know why you would ever use this, it's not useful. No-one likes it. It's just stuck around as a standard size in some areas and now if you want to make jewelry you encounter this awful measurement system.

[la7ma-mafrooma]

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!